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What is Sitemap.xml?

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site.

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complements robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.

XML sitemap is a roadmap to all important pages of a website. This roadmap guides Google to all main content on a website. Having an XML sitemap can be beneficial for SEO, as Google can retrieve essential pages of a website very fast, even if the internal linking of a site isn’t flawless.

XML sitemap is a roadmap to all important pages of a website. This roadmap guides Google to all main content on a website. Having an XML sitemap can be beneficial for SEO, as Google can retrieve essential pages of a website very fast, even if the internal linking of a site isnít flawless.

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complements robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocolv

There are two types of sitemaps, XML Sitemap - for the search engine and HTML or Simple Sitemap i.e for the search engine and for the user....
XML Sitemap contains all your website url which helps search engine to understand your website and its content. And there are several free tool from where you can generate this xml sitemap.

There are two types of sitemaps, XML Sitemap - for the search engine and HTML or Simple Sitemap i.e for the search engine and for the user....
XML Sitemap contains all your website url which helps search engine to understand your website and its content. And there are several free tool from where you can generate this xml sitemap.

sitemap.xml contains the list of webpages of a website. It helps search engine to understand website and its content. This is only for search engine, not for users. For users, we have sitemap.html or sitemap.php file on our website.

Last edited by tanu; 03-27-2018 at 08:26 PM.
Reason: added something important to this answer

Sitemap is basically behaves like navigator of any website. there is two version of Sitemap one is with dot xml for search engine bots to get an Idea and to crawl all the pages of your site and another one is with dot html for navigation help for users or you can say human being.

sitemap.xml is an On-Page SEO element. It is a file that contains the links of all the web pages of a website including main page. It must be submitted to search engines for visibility and indexing purpose.